Altered dominos

I'm taking part in a domino swap on Aunty's forum and i have altered 3 dominos kinda gone for the distressed grunge look, I used my stampin up stamps that i bought from Julie alcohol inks and gold gilt cream

A little bit of Folk Art I think ?

I bought this little foot stool a while ago in a charity shop for £1.50 it was just plain wood so i thought i would funk it up a little bit. I'm saying folk art but i don't know what to call it
kinda pink Huh? LOL

Recycled/altered plant pot

I used an old terracotta plant pot my mum was throwing away that also had the saucer with it.

I painted the pot and saucer cream, turned the pot upside down and sponged blue paint around the rim of the pot and the saucer. when dry i painted the frog, when that was dry i flicked watered down green paint all over , popped the saucer on the top all i need now is a nice candle to put on the top.

Excuse the horrible pic it was taken in the shed LOL.

Arty Girlz challenge #28 Triangles

The challenge this week over On Arty Girlz is Triangles and we also have a fantastic sponsor this week to which is StampAttack. And you can win a gorgeous plate of rubber stamps by joining in with the Arty Girlz challenge so go check it out .



Carol from StampAttack also sent Julie and I a plate of Gorgeous stamps to play with so here what i did with mine.

I cut a large piece of mount board into a triangle shape and used distress inks for my background stamped the image's with brown stazon and added little blue flowers and tied cream ribbon round the stems and for the hangie loop.

For this card i cut a triangle shape from card stock to make the blank covered the front with K&Co papers (think that's what they are ) stamped the image on to the front twice and the word joy which is also on the stamp, then cut a square of card in cream stamped the image again added brown ribbon round the edge and the charm and stuck it to the card.

For this hangie I cut a large triangle from mount board again and used whispers inks for the background. stamped the image added spotty brads and wound paper string around them and used more paper string for the hanging loop.

For this set of 3 ATC Triangles ( you used a standard size ATC and find the center and cut the sides off) I used blue green and orange for the back grounds stamped the image added the little dome stickers and words and run round the edge with silver krylon pen .

Arty Girlz challenge #24 SPRING

This weeks challenge on Arty Girlz is spring. so if you like a challenge why not pop over there and check it out. we also have the lovely Debbie as a guest designer this week you can find her blog HERE

Here's mine

I found this cute little wooden house money box from my local market shop for a pound.

I lightly sanded it and covered it with pretty paper from K&Co I used paper mania die cut flowers which i attached with foam pads and drew in the stems with pencil the plain wood around the roof was painted yellow.

Arty Girlz challenge #2 flowers

This week the Arty Girlz challeng is Flowers.

I bought the little draw set on Saturday at my local boot sale for 75p it was painted yellow blue and green YUCK, so i sanded the whole thing then pained it cream covered the top sides and draw front with Basic Grey Oh baby Girl paper. Took the handles off, and cut some chip board and covered in sassifraslass in stiches paper and cut the flowers out for the handles added a big pink brad in the center and mounted them on little blocks and stuck them to the front of the draws for handles.

sat on my bum saturday

Today's Random word is Breeze: gentle wind, move quickly or casually.

well that's about all i have done today apart from popping to Sainsbury's food shopping.

so i thought i would show you a jewellery box that i altered a little while ago, I can honestly say hand on heart that this is the only thing i have ever done and it has turned out exactly how i hoped it would.
I normally have loads of idea's rattling about in my head and they look really cool in there LOL but NEVER turn out how i thought they would .. The first picci is before and the next 2 are after i got my grubby hand on it.

I sanded the box down to the bare wood to get rid of that horrible stain, i also sanded the handled to get rid of the gold guilding, then i took the lid off and scanned it for a template, also the little draw on the front then the rest of the box for templates.

I cut them out and drew round my paper which were K&co i wanted a romantic feel to the box and thought these papers were perfect for the job. I then glued all my paper in place when it was dry I sanded the edges of the paper into the box for a nice smooth finish. I didn't seal the box because i liked it as it was

Thats it!!!

Todays Random word is: Amity: friendship

Well today's the day my baby boy has gone up to big school (seniors)he looked so grown up in his uniform. I feel quite jittery today worrying, that he's ok.


I was going to start my cj today but i'm just not in the crafting mood, so i will post a picci of a pendent that i made using a Len's from an old pair of glasses and a key ring they were an experiment so a bit on the dodgy side but i have the idea now hopefully i will be able to do them better next time (if there is a next time LOL)

Times flys

Todays random word is Holiday; time spent away from home for rest and recreation; day or other period of rest from workor studies.


where have the days gone, the kids are going back to school tomorrow here in in Essex,

so that meens lots of craft time for me,woohoo. This is a picci of a domino wall plaque i made the other week.

I used 16 dominoes to make it first i used alcohol inks on them, 8 in one colour and 8 in another then randomly stamped images on them. when everything was dry i cut a piece of mount board and glued the domino's to it adding a little bit of glue at the sides that were attached to each other, then added a picture hook on the back and now its hanging in my craft room.